Kim Frank Kirk is a fiction writer and creative writing coach. Winner of a 2014 Idaho Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, her work is published in Drunken Boat International Journal of the Arts, Every Day a Century.and forthcoming in Blackbird and the Colorado Review. She writes regular feature articles for SVPN. Kim is a 2013 UCross Foundation Fellow with an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program For Writers and an MSW from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Sun Valley and is at work on a novel set in China.

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts is a 501c3 non-profit educational arts organization founded in 1971, whose mission is to enrich our community through transformative arts and educational experiences.